United States v. Todd Fries

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• recognizing that there may be an intra-circuit split in the Ninth Circuit over whether bad faith is required for a spoliation instruction, but declining to resolve the issue
• recognizing that there may be an intra- circuit split in the Ninth Circuit over whether bad faith is required for a spoliation instruction, but declining to resolve the issue
• rejecting missing-evidence instruction where “the FBI agent merely failed to record the telephone call,” and finding a missing-evidence instruction is only to be used where “evidence was lost or destroyed” (citation omitted)
• “[W]hen jury instructions are challenged as misstatements of law, we review them de novo.” (quoting United States v. Cortes, 757 F.3d 850, 857 (9th Cir. 2014))

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